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kaczercat
03-13-2014, 04:34 PM
This is my Dwarf Cavendish, it stopped growing for a couple weeks in Jan but since then the growth rate has been picking up.The bottom of the leaves don't seem to be opening all the way causing them to stick up
Anyone know how to stop this from happening? or what's causing it?
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Abnshrek
03-13-2014, 04:42 PM
looks like a choke in progress..

kaczercat
03-13-2014, 04:46 PM
chop it down?

Abnshrek
03-13-2014, 04:58 PM
chop it down?

I would & hope as it gets warmer & gets more sun they do what they are suppose to..

lpatelski
03-13-2014, 06:39 PM
BUNCHY TOP DISEASE? Banana bunchy top virus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banana_bunchy_top_virus)

I hope it is only choke....

Hammocked Banana
03-13-2014, 07:39 PM
Im 99% sure its just choking. My grand naine has just started to do this also bc it was jamming into the roof and things got all bunged up. Think the long winter has also played a large part in this also. Yours looks pretty bad though. I would probably chop it, or u could do some surgery and down the side so that the newly emerging leaf isn't being strangled. You could also wait another week or so to see if it will fix itself as the day length is finally getting longer again.

LilRaverBoi
03-13-2014, 11:25 PM
They do that before blooming.....just watch and enjoy! My SDC is pretty problematic in the winter, but as long as it's still putting up leaves, I'd hope for a bloom!

kaczercat
04-04-2014, 12:06 PM
Yes! it seemed to fix it's self take a look
April 4
http://i665.photobucket.com/albums/vv17/Kaczerm/IMG_1709_zpsd3bea1e8.jpg (http://s665.photobucket.com/user/Kaczerm/media/IMG_1709_zpsd3bea1e8.jpg.html)

Iunepeace
06-05-2014, 04:45 PM
Good for you! My SDC that I had in a container a couple years back exhibited behavior similar to that when it was getting rootbound aka starting to choke. Has yours outgrown its pot maybe?

Also fingers crossed that it's just getting closer to flowering; the leaves do start to sort of bunch up before the inflorescence in SDCs :D